I'm registered with the St Helens group for freecycle, and I reckon it has the worst selection of useless shite going Today's most ridiculous offered item is *drum roll* 4 Scrabble tile holders I mean - wtfuckingf?? Over to you, world - who you registered with, and what is today's most ridiculous item?
Actually, I've already found one that trumps even that a KFC leaflet with offers Someone is either seriously taking the piss, or all my beliefs about the people round here are well and truly grounded in firm knowledge of the shithole I live in
I'll forward you the email then Right after I've picked myself up off the floor, when I'm done laughing
Mrs L R is on the Stirling one, and claims to have seen "Offered: Empty Printer Cartridges. Lexmark."
I know, I know I've been waiting for one item to appear ever since I registered, and there is never one. All I want is a wardrobe. That's it. MONTHS of this shite, just waiting for a wardrobe
When I looked on there every time I used to say 'What are you thinking, no way will anyone want that!' and then a few hours later you'd read 'Received with thanks, 800 yards of popped bubble wrap'. It's crazy, but in another way it's the best use I've ever seen of the Internet.
The next step is to make stuff up, and see if anyone wants it. Offered: Half a tonne of the tops of old Smartie packets. All "y"s.
Someone on the Windsor and Maidenhead one is offering a load of Gardeners World Monthly Magazines .... am tempted as they could go in the recycling and gain us some more points!!
frankly I'm stunned that no one wanted my washing machine when i put it on freecycle even though it didn't actually work
What is wrong with these people? Do they actually state 'offered, completely fucked electrical item'?
'zacly! you can use the old drums out of washing machines to make tables or lights or chairs, look pretty cool. I thought the idea of freecycle was it didn't matter what old tat it was at least it gets reused, someone might want old newspapers for wrapping stuff etc.
I could do with a spare tile holder actually - one of mine got trodden on. Round where I live, it's not so much the ridiculous offers, it's the ridiculous asks (spare Bugaboo or Mac G4 kicking about? I can rehouse it for you and collect it and everything!)
I'm about to put a Sun monitor (the old one, with the DB13W3 connector) on. I don't expect anyone will want or need one, but it feels like a little bit of "noblesse oblige" before I take it down the tip. The same's probably true of the pair of SparcClassics and disk array cases I'll be taking soon, too...
we gave up listing things on there also. people where like, can you drop it off? or they just didnt show up to pick up stuff... cunts
We put on a Vauxhall Corsa parcel shelf (after gsv's car was written off, and the parcel shelf had been sitting in our cellar), which was quite an odd one. Had a few responses and got a taker. Some people do the take the piss with not turning up, but I've got quite good at spotting the surer bets, eg very local, can pick up ASAP. The most bizarre pick-up we had was when the bell rang at about 10 past midnight one evening (weeknight), about an hour after we'd gone to bed. Turned out it was a woman picking up gsv's old giant telly, and she a) lived on the other side of London and b) 'had trouble' with her lift because she didn't drive, which was why she was so late and c) despite having gsv's phone number hadn't called to tell us she was going to arrive at an absurd hour. Seeing as the giant, heavy telly was still in the cellar and we were basically asleep, he told her not so politely that she wasn't getting the telly.
